Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-1944

JOHN BARBER is a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cambridge University, author of Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-1932 (Macmillan, 1981), co-author (with Mark Harrison) of The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (Longman, 1991), and co-editor (with Mark Harrison) of The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev (Macmillan, 2000). - ANDREI DZENISKEVICH is a Doctor of Historical Science, Senior Research Fellow of the St Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a laureate of the State Prize. He is a specialist in the history of the Soviet period and author of seven books on the history of the siege of Leningrad in World War II. He has edited several publications, including Embattled Leningrad and a collection of documents Leningrad in the Siege.

• List of Tables List of Figures Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary Introduction: Leningrad's Place in the History of Famine; J.Barber The Demographic Situation and Health-Care on the Eve of War; N.Cherepenina Assessing the Scale of Hunger and Famine in the Beseiged City; N.Cherepenina Evacuation from Leningrad to Kostroma in 1941-42; M.Frolov Medical Research Institutes During the Seige; A.Dzeniskevich Physiological and Psychosomatic Prerequisites for Survival and Recovery; S.Magaeva The Work of Civilian and Military Pathologists; V.Chirsky The Impact of the Seige on the Physical Development of Children; I.Kozlov & A.Samsonova Long-Term Effects of Lengthy Starvation Among Survivors of the Seige: L.Khoroshinina Crime During the Seige; B.Belozerov Bibliography Index